US lawmakers have asked Tron founder and BitTorrent CEO Justin Sun to explain how content is moderated on the DLive streaming platform.<\/p>\n
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In October 2020, the BitTorrent protocol developer announced the acquisition<\/a> of a service for sharing video content. Earlier, DLive struck a strategic partnership with the organization, migrated to the Tron blockchain and integrated the BTT token.<\/p>\n Lawmakers Raja Krishnamurti and Jackie Speier sent the inquiry as part of the investigation into the January 2021 Capitol riot. They also expect comments from the streaming service’s CEO, Charles Wayn.<\/p>\n We are concerned that online platforms like DLive are used to disseminate extremism that provokes autonomous conflicts and violence,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n According to the document, participants in the Capitol riot were broadcasting via the platform. The congressmen demanded that Sun and Wayn provide data on measures to counter dangerous content on DLive.<\/p>\n The authors of the letter are also interested in information on possible cryptocurrency payments to the participants in the unrest. According to the lawmakers, some of them earned \u201cthousands of dollars in DLive\u2019s digital currency.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOne person received $2,800 in a live broadcast on January 5, 2021, during which he urged his viewers to kill elected officials,\u201d noted the members of Congress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sun and Wayn are required to respond to the inquiry by February 12, 2021.<\/p>\n DLive Letter \u2014 2.9.21 FINAL<\/a> by ForkLog<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n\n
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